18F-PM-PBB3 PET Study in Tauopathy Including Alzheimer's Disease, Other Dementias and Normal Controls
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03625128 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : August 10, 2018
Last Update Posted : October 21, 2019
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Alzheimer's Disease Cortical Basal Syndrome Frontotemporal Dementia Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Vascular Cognitive Impairment | Drug: F-18 | Early Phase 1 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 36 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Diagnostic |
Official Title: | Phase 0 Evaluation of Clinical and Neuroimage (18F-PM-PBB3 PET) Study in Tauopathy Including Alzheimer's Disease, Other Dementias and Normal Controls |
Actual Study Start Date : | January 2, 2018 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | August 3, 2018 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | December 3, 2018 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: F-18 PMPBB3
F-18 PMPBB3 imaging
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Drug: F-18
This is an open-label study to evaluate the performance of a novel tau imaging ligand in up to 36 subjects (12 AD, 3 FTD, 3 PSP, 3 CBS, 3 VCI and 12 HV).
Other Name: F-18 PMPBB3 |
- The primary outcome measures are to evaluate the dosimetry of novel radiotracer 18F-PM-PBB3 in human. [ Time Frame: YEAR ONE ]Time-integrated activity in each organ will be calculated by trapezoidal integration of the first 45 min of the organ's time-activity curve, followed by a single-exponential fit to the remaining data points (based on the 4 whole-body images) extrapolate to infinity, all base on non-decay-corrected data.Residence times will be obtained by dividing the time-integrated activity by the injected amount of activity.
- Optimal scanning time for brain imaging using 18F-PM-PBB3 . [ Time Frame: YEAR ONE ]PET data will be acquired using SIMENS PET/CT or PET/MRI scanner with an axial field of view of 15.7cm. For PET/CT protocol, a 50-min dynamic brain PET scan (6x10s, 4x60s, 5x180s, 6x300s) will be started simultaneously with the injection of 10mCi of 18F-PM-PBB3 after a low-dose CT scan for patient positioning and attenuation correction.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 20 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Written informed consent must be obtained before any assessment is performed.
- Female subjects must be documented by medical records or physician's note to be either surgically sterile (by means of hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, or tubal ligation) or post-menopausal for at least 1 year or, if they are of child-bearing potential, must commit to use a barrier contraception method for the duration of the study.
- Male subjects and their partners of childbearing potential must commit to the use of two methods of contraception, one of which is a barrier method for male subjects for the study duration.
- Male subjects must not donate sperm for the study duration.
- Willing and able to cooperate with study procedures
Exclusion Criteria:
- Implantation of metal devices including cardiac pacemaker, intravascular metal devices.
- Major systemic diseases including coronary arterial disease, heart failure, uremia, hepatic failure, prominent strokes (except for patients with VCI), acute myocardial infarction, poorly controlled diabetes, previous head injury, intracranial operation, hypoxia, sepsis or severe infectious diseases.
- Current or prior history of major psychiatric disorders, epilepsy and major depression.
- History of severe allergic or anaphylactic reactions particularly to the tested drugs.
- History of positive test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
- Life expectancy less than 1 year.
- Pregnant women, lactating or breast-feeding women.
- Clinically significant abnormal laboratory values and/or clinically significant or unstable medical or psychiatric illness.
- Substance abuse or alcoholism for at least 3 months.
- Cognitive impairment resulting from trauma brain injury.
- Prior participation in other research protocols or clinical care in the last year in addition to the radiation exposure expected from participation in this clinical study, such that radiation exposure exceeds the effective dose of 50 mSv.
- Subject has received an investigational drug or device within 30 days of screening
- Patients in whom MRI was contraindicated and with history of claustrophobia in MRI
- General MRI, and / or PET exclusion criteria. MRI exclusion criteria include: Findings of cerebrovascular disease (more than two lacunar infarcts, any territorial infarct >1cm3, or deep white matter abnormality corresponding to an overall Fazekas scale of 3 with at least one confluent hyperintense lesion on the FLAIR sequence that is ≥20 mm in any dimension, except for patients with VCI), infectious disease, space-occupying lesions, normal pressure hydrocephalus or any other abnormalities associated with CNS disease.
- Severe language impairment precluding cognitive assessments, defined as a score of 3 points in the language score of the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale.
- Subjects having high risks for the study according to the PI discretion.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03625128
Taiwan | |
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital,Linkou | |
Taoyuan City, Guishan Dist, Taiwan, 333 |
Principal Investigator: | Chin-Chang Huang | Chang Gung Memorial Hospital |
Responsible Party: | Chang Gung Memorial Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT03625128 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
201700982A0 |
First Posted: | August 10, 2018 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | October 21, 2019 |
Last Verified: | August 2018 |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
Alzheimer Disease Dementia Supranuclear Palsy, Progressive Frontotemporal Dementia Aphasia, Primary Progressive Pick Disease of the Brain Tauopathies Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurocognitive Disorders Mental Disorders Basal Ganglia Diseases Movement Disorders |
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